JEDIDIAH wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.databases.oracle.server.]
> On 2004-12-29, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>>jeff_vosburg_at_aliases.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If price is not an issue, which is a better solution to
>>>use? Oracle 10g w/Automated Storage Manager or Veritas's
>>>Enterprise Storage Foundation (with clustered filesystem).
>>>
>>>Big disadvantage I see to ASM is that we can only use
>>>raw volumes & depend entirely on RMAN for backups/restores.
>>>
>>>This is for 3 Sun v440's that hope to run Oralce 10g RAC.
>>>
>>>-JV
>>
>>If something goes wrong would you rather have two different
>
>
> If something goes wrong, then you've already lost.
>
> The idea should be to avoid something going wrong to begin with.
>
Things _do_ break from time to time. (Disks, fans, power supplies,
software bugs etc)
Multiple lines of defense, and a system to ensure that a failure at one
point doesn't take down our whole operation must be in place.
Received on Thu Dec 30 2004 - 18:05:02 CST
